Mount-Royal-Nationalpark

The Mount -Royal National Park is a national park in the east of the Australian state of New South Wales, 187 kilometers north of Sydney and about 50 kilometers east of Muswellbrook.

The Mount -Royal National Park contains some of the Barrington Tops Wilderness Area. The park is part of the Barrington Tops area - and, as part of the Gondwana Rainforests since 1986, its status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Since 2007, this park is also on the list of the Australian National Heritage. About 20 percent of the area is covered with rainforest, the rest is eucalyptus forest or grassy woodland. The highest elevations of Mount Royal Ridge are of Mount Royal in the center, Mount Paterson to the north and Mount Carrow in the south.

In the forests of this park also threatened animal species, such as the Pseudomys oralis (English: Hastings River Mouse).